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10 September, 2014

I installed WordPress via Bitnami, and naturally proceeded to work with a child theme. But where are the files? Normally they should be in the same folder as WordPress. They are not. On Linux the path to these files is:

/opt/lampp/apps/htdocs/wordpress/wp-content/plugins

The directory is only for sudoers, så you may have to change the permissions to the folder, or edit as sudo / root. OS X may as well have to change permissions or work as the sudo.

On a linux system the quick and dirty solution is:

# sudo chmod -R 777 htdocs

On a Windows / OS X some bloggers suggest a rightclick - and then to give users read / write access. Then you're able to edit the files.

04 September, 2014

Several students had a problem with their Xampp. MySQL would not start. After some googling we found a thread on Stackoverflow with this workaround:

delete ibdata1

Whether this is sound advice or not I don't know. However MySQL was able to run. But I suspect that the file held information about all tables, so perhaps a repair of the entire database would be a good idea.